skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, I appreciate your thoughts!

> Did the Unabomer have any ideas you couldn't read elsewhere?

> I imagine there are tons of philosophers who have said similar things.

I would imagine the Unabomber isn't the first or only, but it is the first place where I encountered many of the ideas/analysis. It absolutely felt like it went very much against the grain of acceptable writing of the day. It amounted to outright heresy in some cases, which I find fascinating and engaging. People who challenge the status quo are the ones who IMHO change the world the most. I'm by no means equating Kaczynski with many of the greats of the past, but they all had that same trait in common: challenging the assumptions and status quo of the day with at times heretical ideas.

In particular, his observation/separation of the three different power levels in which humans can operate deeply spoke to me and resonated with me. His identification of how operating in power levels 1 and 3 can be so profoundly different than how our brains evolved to be and therefore unfulfilling and unsatisfying struck me with the same sort of intellectual force that Immanuel Kant's Categorical Imperative did the first time I understood it. Then he builds logically on that to identify/describe how with technology we are essentially being pushed entirely out of power-level 2 and into levels 1 and 3, and it becomes very easy and simple to understand why he believes technology to be so disastrous for humanity.

> But we probably don't remember or cite them because their manifestos weren't published on the front page of newspapers.

> That was due to the serial violence of the author, and it was subsequently talked about for decades.

> That is, the notoriety of his crimes could be the reason that you read and recommend his work, rather than somebody else's work -- as opposed to it being a coincidence

Absolutely, I very much agree. Although if none of those other works ever made it to my attention, then they don't have the opportunity to influence me or give me the feeling of intellectual nourishment that I got from Kaczynski's manifesto.

This strikes me as a very similar problem to the medical knowledge gained by Nazi scientist from doing horrifying experiments on Jewish prisoners. Do we disregard the knowledge gained because it was gained in such a disagreeable and reprehensible way? Logically, disregarding it makes no sense, only providing emotional satisfaction. Using it can benefit our future, but not using it does nothing to change the past. We could say "incentives" but that has to be addressed through punishments/repercussions to the people who did the experiments.

But regardless, those other sources have reached me now, thank you! I'll be reading them :-)
They ate his lunch :(
Backtracking: A Comprehensive Guide
There's no boilerplate here. This is all advertisements for different frameworks. The only thing I could figure out how to click linked to a github page offering a paid framework for something.

Not to be a dick, but whatever your concept of "boilerplate" is does not match with mine. Boilerplate is not a "stack" or "framework", that's why they have different names. Boilerplate is ten miles of code to setup and initialize something, and which can be reused. Frameworks include boilerplate, but are not themselves boilerplate.

The concept of sharing boilerplate would ideally be a list of gists, maybe a git repo. It's just text.

Also the UI on this site is very much not great. You click the box for the entry you want and it just gets a highlight. You have to hunt for the links within the box, which are all in de-emphasized gray font. This is basically the exact opposite of how you bring a link to the user's attention. You've intentionally hidden the links from the user.

My read is that this is a project from a young hacker who doesn't quite understand what it is they're building or why it's needed.
What do you mean playing tough? These are existing laws that should be enforced. The amount of people's lives ruined by the American government because they were deemed copyright infringers is insane. The us has made it clear that copyright infringement is unacceptable.

We now have a new class of criminals infringing on copyright on a grand scale via their models and they seem desperate to avoid persecution hence all this bullshit.
> 2038 is less than 15 years away and I bet a significant portion of systems will not be upgraded during this period.

No, Linux distro releases are not like Windows, there is little reason to be holding back and running 15 year old systems. If you are running Debian 12 in 2038, lack of t64 will be the least of your issues. Debain 12 standard LTS ends in 2028 [0] and extended support (if you pay for it) ends in 2033 [1]. Beyond that you're on your own. If you're running servers, you'd be mad to be running any the current stable and old-stable releases by then.

[0] https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Extended
I agree with most of this and generally like Apple stuff, but...

The first touch point on a new Apple product is the box, and they use high end, thick cardboard that’s got a great finish.

...I can’t agree with this. Their boxes are bad! They’re probably really proud of their boxes and think they’re the best, and they do have a nice surface sheen, but they’re bad.

They’re too heavy, too hard to open, near impossible to break down to recycle.

Every time I mention this somebody says “that’s out of date, they’ve really improved recently”, but I’m still seeing the same shitty plastic-infused boxes.

Nintendo are great at doing amazing things with simple cardboard. But there are plenty of other companies doing this now. Apple is well behind the times.
While an individual fact can't be copyrighted, a collection of facts does have database right protections in the EU & UK:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_right
Disagree that this isnt a generic problem. And i'll take the same amount of umbrage at you calling it disingenuous. There are dual needs here. Having to read a story and take in a wholly unrelated workflow just to discover only half of the switches available to the feature im looking up is a problem.

And when there isn't just straight documenting of what's been implemented then it is an unreasonable gate to usage which limits customers to only the flows imagined by the technical writer.

Which itself breeds this sort of refusal to participate. Either the end user is ungrateful and needs to express that gratitude through silence or there's a smug moderator who's read everything and knows which paragraph of which tutorial has the answer and harangues anyone asking with a link and a "why didnt you read sentence 5 of paragraph 2 of a tutorial written 2 years and 3 major versions ago?"
Good news, the share of the world's land used for agriculture has been declining for 24 years.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-land-area-used-f...

Now that your objection (increased land use) has been disproven, I am sure you will come to change your outmoded, even Ehrlichian, views on human population size.
Right. The question is when (if ever) you would actually want to be minimizing the rms of the vector error. For most of us, the answer is "never".

I remember back in 7th or 8th grade I asked my math teacher why we want to minimize the rms error rather than the sum of the absolute values of the errors. She couldn't give me a good answer, but the book All of Statistics does answer why (and under what circumstances) that is the right thing to do.
Please let this become a trend elsewhere as well.
Mine has an optional email address field, required subject text field and a required message textarea field and a submit button.

No captcha, because submission is JS based, which, so far (11 years), no spam bot is able to crack.

I believe that most contact forms, like those phone support press 1 for and 2 for etc, are done so you don't actually contact support.

And most times contacting support results in no support being given, so I tend to not even care anymore.

If something is annoying or doesn't work I won't use it anymore.
One hardly needs to be either a leftist or angry about anything to accept the rather obvious critique of capitalism that the general lack of durable products on the market provokes. It is fairly uncontroversial that designed obsolescence is ubiquitous.
You can easily look up some studies, but for me personally it has been the impact on sensitivity.
It's basically gone since I've been using it.
In my experiments, anything using lookup tables was slower than a naive, branching decoder on real-world data. Reading from a lookup table in L1 cache has ~4 cycles latency which is prohibitive for the simple case of mostly ASCII bytes. You can easily achieve more than 1.5 GB/s with a naive decoder while all the "smarter" approaches are capped to ~800 MB/s.
Why is HN flagging links as dead within minutes?
I didn't mean trying to rewrite code to change dynamically allocated objects to stack based ones. That sounds more like an optimization that a managed language like C# might do.

C++'s unique_ptr and shared_ptr both have a get() method that will return you a raw pointer to the managed object, which can be a safe optimization within a function holding ownership to the object, as well as allowing you to use legacy functions on it that take raw pointer arguments.

I was thinking the C++ compiler could itself realize when it is safe to do so, save the raw pointer to a temp variable, and "rewrite" smart pointer accesses to use this temporary raw pointer. One could even imagine the compiler changing smart pointer function parameters to raw pointers in some circumstances.
As you say, Ansible's filter list does not include the base Jinja2 filters, which I guess is a difference of opinion. I feel that is preferred to reproducing the Jinja2 documentation, especially as the Jinja2 filter list is the first (non-TOC) link on the page.

Also going to disagree about "using Google is cheating". The purpose of documentation is to help me get stuff done. The Internet is not printed on dead trees, I don't want to read through a TOC or index looking for what I want when I'm searching, I want to use a search engine. I often don't want a reference, I want to quickly find how to do something. I rarely want to read about all the filters, instead I want to find the even/odd filter, or the the default or omit filter. Yes, sometimes I want to brush up on all available filters, but that's rare.
Some studies have shown it (high fluoride, and possibly too low of fluoride too) affecting IQ.

It’s a shame if you mention anything about possible negative effects of fluoride you get lumped in with the crazies.
It's the curse of scale. Automation allows there to be plenty of job postings and job applications, but it sidelines the human part of actually talking to someone. Those in the know will end up sidestepping this altogether and using their networks to get a direct line to a real hiring manager or applicant. I've done this myself where I talk to past collaborators and professors I know and ask "Do you have an intern/soon-to-graduate-student you recommend with skills X, Y, and Z?"

This is admittedly unfair to outsiders, but if you talk to someone, there's a high reputational pressure that assures you're dealing with a real person who's likely a decent match for the job/applicant. This is valuable precisely because there's high friction and doesn't scale.
The kids version is as effective and less sweet. But more expensive.
Another benefit is that it doesn't contain titanium dioxide.
America has failed over and over and over at building public housing. It costs more than privately built housing and Ive never seen the management run well.
2016

More recently, the drawbacks have been far more global in nature.
classic trolley dilemma. i'd do the same thing, if few % has issues, that can be fixed later, having whole industry that's creating and selling cheats, is just too big an issue to simply ignore.

in the grand schema, you'll lose few % of playerbase, in exchange you'll get much more happy customers, so in the end it will be a win.
Seeing dad have sex with mom.
Oh, but it is.

I once had a debugging interview on Linux. In my head. No terminals. Interviewer would propose a hint about the problem, but he was tipping the answers. I could see where he wanted to go every time.

So I applied a concept from Bridge: WHen you are given unintended information from your partner, you must take any logical action except for what is indicated.

So I'd spit out ALL things that came to mind, then finally the answer. (Like 4 or 5 thing PER STEP.)

And I wan CONSISTENT. The more he tipped, I just kept doing it.

At the end of the interview, I asked my questions, and asked if they played bridge. They said no. I explained the concept of Active Ethics, and that throughout the interview I was using active ethics.

;)

Got the job. That guy was one of my best friends in the joint.

At times... Simple questions involve complex answers. :)
Earth Orientation Data
Nim has a garbage collector.

That said, you're right on some level that it's truly semantics that matter, not syntax, but you need syntax to control the semantics.
I you live long enough in Japan this is just concept as viewed by an outsider. Their dollar store is full of almost useless ideas put out in the market. Even the blue LED was discovered because a company owner invested millions and his scientist was not afraid to try new ideas. You will find all sorts of camera styles on their electronic stores. Even their appliances have all kind of categories and you wont see the west even trying to put it out in the market.
AM frequencies (medium and short waves) with the right propagation and time of the day condition travel well beyond the horizon, following the Earth curvature, without the need for repeaters in the middle. That's how people in non free countries can get news coming from abroad while all their local FM, TV, internet and cellphones are heavily censored. There are some good reasons to keep AM working.
Dave and Buster's Launches Arcade Betting as Wagers Gain Popularity
This is the general problem with GoDaddy. They make random changes, don't communicate those things, and then you send your time trying to unravel their mess.
I can't believe this comment is 12 years old already, but here you go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4247615
Too much of anything will kill you...
I agree with the introduction, but that line was the last I read in the article.
I do this with UI. In fact, I'm working on a backend dashboard app, right now. Only two of us (nerdy) types will ever use it (maybe more, if things take off, but it's not a priority).

I will be spending at least three days, polishing up a "thermometer" UI, for the date ranges.

The main public app, itself, is a big aggregation of "small things," like custom transition animations, haptics, font choices, etc. The designer was quite adamant about "small things," often complaining about half-pixel (!) offsets.

That's one of the reasons I write native, and also one of the reasons that I'm using UIKit/AutoLayout, because they let me do anything I want (but I don't really like AutoLayout -I'm just good with it).

People seem to like it.
Sarcasm is by definition a statement that has a differing meaning than it would otherwise hold. Sarcasm is accomplished by vocal intonation, and at a stretch, by context. Any sentence read lacks the information to identify it as sarcasm unless it's explicitly stated.
Ask any healthcare worker about the issues in the medical field and they will say people are overworked, hospitals are short staffed, mistakes are made and patients die as a result of burnout and lack of any time to recharge or process traumatic incidents they see.

So while yes some groups do good work under pressure, no one does their best work under pressure, the opposite in fact.
Simplicity is an advantage but sadly complexity sells better (2022)
Never underestimate the personal satisfaction of spending a day, or a week, installing, playing or configuring one's tools!

In the past, we customized our workflow while in the flow. Now, to approximate that freedom, we have to futz around up front, with the limited control levers they give us. In a slow feedback loop with any actual work, to get our tools to help us in the way we want.

Which for complex tools and work, can rapidly become its own end.
Cool you have a bitmap. Now what? You're going to distribute all that child porn people enclosed in the bitmap (byte array) that doesn't render as a valid image?
I guess Plato is given a lot credit for writing down oral rules of thought and being.
What are you talking about? We have tons of professional certifications. We also still have all of these problems.
> It probably costs barely anything to make the box better like that

On the contrary, it costs a LOT to make the box that good.

I can't find it now, but I recall some article posted here about how lots of startups spent insane amounts of money trying to make their packaging as good as Apple's (UHD foam, aluminum milling) when they should be working on their actual product instead.
States have passed laws that b an background checks before. It always leads to discrimination as people just use stereotypes because they cant find out the truth.
> Sounds like the “turn it off” approach from the Book of Mormon.

I'm not familiar with that. What is it?
Komoot is helping me get back on my bike after a long hiatus
> FaceTime Audio has time, date, and duration of calls

If you know how to access these records from a year ago, I’M genuinely curious for the answer, because I couldn’t for the life of me figure that out.
I'm using the Traefik and have the same experience with the documentation. It can be time consuming to configure it properly if you are not a power user.

I'm happy with it though, it's a great piece of software. I wonder is there any other product out there with a similar feature set?
Well, given how bad some technical translations happen to be, I want to see regular Web content in one of my native languages, but read programming stuff in English, so Accept-Language: headers alone won't do it anyway.
In this case isn't the browser decoding the image and drawing a bitmap? That sounds more like a critical vulnerability in e.g. Chrome.

In my mind the chain of events looks like:
- Alice uploads an image file to Bob's file server
- Charlie's image converter server invokes a local browser with the address of the file on Bob's server, resulting in a .bmp (or .png? a little out of my element here) saved to Charlie's server.
- Doris can now pull images from Charlie's server knowing they've been vetted by a major browser.

Does that make sense?
Meh. My experience working there wasn't so much that original ideas were frowned upon as much as thinking/saying you're better than your group-mates for having them was. It's a subtle difference, but I saw plenty of novel ideas take root, but only after an excruciatingly long period of socialization. In the states and in most of Europe, it seems if you have a good idea, you just blurt it out and people say "hunh. that sounds like a good idea. let's do that thing." But Japan and Sweden required A LOT of planning and hemming and hawing about whether the new idea was a good thing to do.
> FORTRAN was provided for the IBM 1401 by an innovative 63-pass compiler

Must have been fantastic to debug when there was an unexpected interaction between pass 37 and 51.
Ask HN: Are Nvidia H100s that good?
I was playing around with some different GPUs yesterday and put all of the results here: https://www.tensordock.com/benchmarks

I tried a vLLM and Resnet training workload. The H100 outperforms the A100 about 45% to 80% consistently, but it isn’t that much faster…

What workloads would see the most speedup, because I’m really not seeing 3x+ any on vLLM or simple training workloads?
I just pronounce it "traffic". I'm not playing their damn head games.
A Navy Submarine Navigating the Arctic
Every competent landlord is min-maxing pricing. Realpage just allowed incompetent ones to do it too.
>By the 1960s, the systematic selection for competence came into direct conflict with the political imperatives of the civil rights movement. During the period from 1961 to 1972, a series of Supreme Court rulings, executive orders, and laws—most critically, the Civil Rights Act of 1964—put meritocracy and the new political imperative of protected-group diversity on a collision course.

Lot of this kind of stuff. Thesis summarized is that America is going to hell in a handbasket because the Feds are demanding that black people get hired once in a blue moon, a practice which dilutes meritocracy, according to the author.

Heh.

>When this was not enough, MIT increased its gender diversity by simply offering jobs to previously rejected female candidates. While no university will admit to letting standards slip for the sake of diversity, no one has offered a serious argument why the new processes produce higher or even equivalent quality faculty as opposed to simply more diverse faculty.

Ah, MIT now pumping out dumb blondes, are they? Having encountered such people as the author of this piece several times before,I have to wonder about the "meritocracy" process in place prior. So "merit" correlates positively with sunscreen purchases, and inversely to tampon expenditure, does it?

>This effect was likely seen in a recent paper by McDonald, Keeves, and Westphal. The paper points out that white male senior leaders reduce their engagement following the appointment of a minority CEO. While it is possible that author Ijeoma Oluo is correct, and that white men have so much unconscious bias raging inside of them that the appointment of a diverse CEO sends them into a tailspin of resentment, there is another more plausible explanation. When boards choose diverse CEOs to make a political statement, high performers who see an organization shifting away from valuing honest performance respond by disengaging.

I mean... is there an actual difference here? First, I'm not convinced it's unconscious bias. Second, this "disengagement" certainly seems like the kind of "meritocracy" we have sadly grown quite familiar with.

>The problem is that complex systems have not made us more knowledgeable and capable, but instead they have become a crutch.

This article kind of sounds like some people want the old crutch back. There is a non trivial question of your fitness for this, however. In the 50's the rise of psychotherapy made it quite clear that people were cracking under the strain of delivering "merit."

I'm quite delighted that this is such a concern to you people. Excellent.
There are longstanding lessons in this point that predate software.

The US car companies slid in the 60s and 70s by incrementally cutting “irrelevant” costs, like not painting under the seats, cheaper knobs, and the like. Each of these changes was imperceptible but their sum was noticeable. Ironically their own European and especially Japanese competition went the other way: started cheap (so people expected cheap knobs) and then incrementally moved upmarket (“Wow, this cheap car is nicer than I had expected” -> premium market).

Right now the software and especially SaaS worlds seem stuck in their own 1970s Detroit era. Dangerous crap,but with little alternative. I don’t see any “Japanese manufacturers” (to extend the analogy) on the horizon.
Fluoride catalyzes remineralization of dissolved calcium and phosphate atoms back to hydroxyapatite; this also happens without fluoride, but less efficiently. In addition fluorine ions can substitute the hydroxide ions in hydroxyapatite, forming fluorapatite which is more resistant against acid.
And that's just the oddities you've noticed
That actual health professional was wrong. It depends on the exposure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_fluorosis
I like how signing up requires agreeing to the terms of service and privacy policy, but both links go to empty pages.
Good ideas in computer science
As far as I know there's nothing in the middle.